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cold times at the cistern

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January 29th 2008
Mostly over the past few days we've made several trips to the spice market and old bazaar. I have a few pictures left over from the bazaar which I will post but yesterday we made a sweet trip to the basilica cistern. Here's a link about it if anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern. All of the pictures I have were taken by other people because my camera wont seem to ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more